#cosplayer mimi

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I had a blast wearing Rozemyne again this year! I wish I took more photos. I made a new sash, replaced her wig (with tons of hand sewing to change the wetting patterns), and added her cape.

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I had so much fun wearing Rozemyne V 1.0 at the con this weekend!

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Me: aww my girl is ready for her christmas campaign!

also me, as a cosplayer: wait. what is that open satchel/ book holder bag contraption and how do i make it?

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Omg I think the wig itself is done!!

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No productive thoughts in my head today. Just this absolute banger of a witch outfit rattling around.

I love all the historical fashion nods like the sleeve garters and drop shoulders. The puffed and flared sleeve. The danglies on his sleeve garters. The loose shirt gathering at the waist. The corset belt. The floor length skirt. The loops on his shoes/ stockings.

And don’t get me started on the cape. The blue against the black and all the gold details with the binding and buttons and tassels. The five buttons with real button holes on each cape lapel— cape lapels in general? Five whole tassels. The fact that he and Qifrey swapped hat ornaments. His shoes actually have the flying glyphs underneath.

The fashion in this manga is unmatched.

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The real question is: did Tuuli and Effa outsource the making of the crocheted/ lacework flowers for Rozemyne’s academy dress, or did they make them all themselves?

And doubly so for her Renaissance dress. Those flowers are very large roses, and would have taken that much more work, even if they’re working with larger spools of thread than I have embroidery floss skeins (8 meters/ 8.7 yd).

I’ve made many test versions trying to nail down type of thread, ratio of the types of threads, number of threads, and experimenting with the pattern. I’m currently up to 8 of the final flowers. The individual flowers are being doubled to form larger flowers for better scale. So I have enough to make 4 roses so far, after about two or three weeks of off-on crocheting. (Of note, today I learned how to join skeins, so I may well get larger roses from here on out…)

Though I have noticed I can now make two in a day if I stretch myself, it begs the question of how many hours of work went into these roses in universe, considering thread costs, the cost of lamp oil (if the family is now taking their income and using it on oil for better lighting and not continuing to just rely on the hearth light). Did they outsource any of them to others in the Gilberta company? Was it winter handiwork over a whole season? Multiple seasons? Does Tuuli have forearms of steel and tendinitis from all the crocheting she does? The world may never know…

(Also, see Myne making a five petal flower using the same base technique as the roses use. I can tell because the thread curls up like that with the chain/ v stitches/ double crochets pattern.)

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Today I finally went shopping for the lining fabric and backgrounds, so I was able to start work on the bag for my Raggedy Andy cosplay build.

This block will finish at 4”. It’s the half square triangle version of the Lemoyne star block. I went for the scrappy look. At this scale, it barely used up about 5” x 3” piece of each main fabric.

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Marin-chan’s Yukito-kun Sakuya-kun cosplay was so cute. I love that she’s able to cosplay characters of a different body type, despite being a girl. I feel like no other anime would ever be so freaking casual about this and I love it.

I’ve always been a bit insecure about cosplaying males because I’m short, have a large chest, and more recently have gained weight in my face, so I really really related to this episode.